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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

Cornel West

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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Differences Successful Year
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Buying Pleasure Selling
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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Believe Christian Intellectual
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Entangled Falling Love
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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Idea Men Wise
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
I’m actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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Philosophy Understanding Way
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely – to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
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Christian Land Name

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